I never done this mountain in the summer, so the ascent was probably highly non-traditional. However, the terrain is easy to follow. Crampons and an axe definitely helped. The snow was crusty and easy to climb. Took about 3 hours to get to the top, but less than an hour to get down. Great view from the top. Awesome day!

Took a friend out on his first ever climb hoping to take advantage of the temp inversion induced sunshine. Too bad the funky weather turned the entire mountain to solid ice. He didn't have crampons so even the cave ridge route was too much. Still a fun day with good views. Turned around just below 5000 ft.

The week after I scrambled Guye, I went back. There was a nice trail most the way up, I believe 2004 was our bad snow year? I've gone up twice afterwards in May '08/'09 in the snow. Although the trail is very nice, I do love the snow.

Conditions couldn't have been more perfect- blue bird skies and nice styrofoam snow. Ascended from Alpental. Got an early start, but not so early that I shared the summit with the 15 people I passed just before the summit. Had the entire summit to myself- watched two climbers ascend neighboring Red Mountain while I was up there.

Nice short, accessible day trip in the winter. I had the mountain to myself. Views were great...from Baker to Rainier, Stuart to the Olympics. Snow was very firm...glad to have the crampons and ice axe.

Awesome views from the top - super clear day. For some reason it was hot as a mofo up there (its winter right?). Glissaded most the way down, including a little creek valley which was like a looge (sp?)